9/11: A Sustainability Story

Email | Print | Single Page View Tags: Clean Tech On that bright, sunny September Tuesday, as the planes hit their targets, I was sitting in a windowless conference room, inside a Sheraton Hotel sandwiched between Terminals A and B at Bradley International Airport, just north of Hartford, Connecticut. I was part of a small team brought together for a one-day brainstorming session on behalf of the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund , established a year earlier by the state’s legislature to invest in clean-energy resources. The stated mission of the exercise was “to map out the investment opportunity space and suggest which areas of opportunity will provide the most fruitful focus in the search for ventures that meet both social and financial criteria.” We had been asked to consider a broad range of investment options, both short-term and longer-term -- high-tech bioreactors for ...